Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-06-16
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
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Tho Primghar Bell has added Prouty
power press TO its outfit.
Spirit Lake anticipates more visitors
this summer than ever before.
Council Bluffs is having pool tour
nament, six experts contesting.
The Dubuque Times has new man
eyer in tie person of w. S. Westcott.
Good rains visited the eastern portion
of the State recently doing great good to
growing crops.
Dick Godson, n manufacturer of cor
mice atSCedar Rapids, hns become hope
lessly. insane.
The Sheenhnn and Coyne Grogan
theatrical company stranded at Des Moines
the other day.
--Jonnthan Jones is on trial at Council
Bluffs for the murder of David Roberts
ten yenrs ago.
Whisky got n Sanborn man named
Fenton into 80 much trouble that he left
the town in disgust.
The city council of jefferson has APP
propriated $500 to sink an artesian well
within the city limits.
"A vicious COW attacked 10-year- old
girl at Ogden few days ago and injured
!. her go severely that it is feared she will
die
DIR. E. L. Mansfield, one Of the Oldest
md most prominent business men of Ce-
dnr Rapids, dropped dead while riding in
his buggy
The Des Moines newspapers are be-
coming less excited and now only devote
/ from two to three columns per day 10 base
ball matters.
Tho contract has been signed with tho
Racine Tow aud Cordage Company, by
which the company agrees to remove to
Rock Rapids.
The Burlington Oid Fellows have
dedicated their new building. The prop
erty cost $4,000 and is one of the finest
ediaces in the city.
Burlington has an unusual number of
drunken men and tough characters of both
sexes now days. Prohibition fails to pro-
hibitin Burlington.
The government Indian school build
ing, near Mt. hornell, Lee county, was
burned The other day. Loss about $12.-
600; no insurance.
During tho last term of court at Mus
cntine the city was mulched in the sum of
) $4,000, as damages for injuries caused by
defective sidewalks.
Albert Sullivan, coal miner, was
killed by train in the suburbs Of Ottum-
wa the other night. His head, arm and
log were cut off.
The Green driye-well patents, about
which there was such commotion in the
State few years ago, have been held by
the Supreme court to be valid.
In Cedar Rapids difference arose be-
tween the town council and tho sewerage
commission, resulting in the resignation
of the commissioners in body.
George Lincoln, the oldest clothing
merchant in Cedar Rapids, has failed in
business. His liabilities are abost SIS, 900
with nearly an equal amount of assets.
"A little girl aged IA, was brutally OUT
ragged near Zwingle, in the southern part
of Dubuque county recently. The scoun-
drel made his escape.
s S-J. Ii. Duffus, theDes Moines news
4 paper man.. who went to Fort Madison q
year or so ago and invested in property,
has made fortune since the boom struck
the sleepy old town on the Mississippi.
Tho Council Bluffs bridge dispute is
still undecided The secretary of war is
awny from Washington. on a ten days
pleasure trip and his decision is not looked
for until his retarn.
Burlington has printer, E. May, ST.,
who is 81 years of age, has never been sick
and feels as full of lifo to-day as he did
fifty years ago. Fifty.three years Of his
life has been spent in printing office.
-Herndon hns its sixth gas we'll, the
flow of gas being discovered when the we'll
had reached q depth of 1877 feet. The
we'll Of H. @. Booth, put down last No.
yember, seems to be stronger than when
first put down.
Mrs. Phebe Irwin, wife of q Keokuk
marble cutter, abandoned her home few
days ago. Her husband snys there has
never been any serious difficulty between
himself and his wife, and he is at loss to
explain her action.
w. D. Andrews and brother of New
York, who own and control majority of
the territory of the United States under
the Green drive-well patents, expects to
collect at least a million dollars from Iowa
owners Of drive wells.
+. Apriss, Of Burlington, sent his
family to church, and when they were away
he improved the opportunity to hang him.
self to rafter, and was stiff and cold when
discovered. Ill health and melancholy was
the cause.